Oh God. I have to say it in public.
Birth of Radio and eventual creation of FCC to ensure that idle stupidity doesn't interfere with maritime and other essential functions.
Remember when broadcasters were required to have a news segment as a public service? And it actually WAS news.
Death of Ma Bell. Divestiture. 1984. Telecom Act of 1996 requiring equal network access to private competitive carriers.
Ancient news - but when it was really the only massive public network it was a great, big weasel deal.
Break up big communications monopolies, require competitive access, attempt to restrict some things while allowing most to pass unmolested. So we've had problems like this before and managed to get past them.
Until now.